Effects of Growth Factors on Testicular Morphogenesis

International Review of Cytology

Volumn 260, Issue , 2007, Pages 113-173

  Mackay, Sarah ^a   Smith, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AMH; FGF9; Growth factors; Morphogenesis; Neurotrophic factors; PDGF; Sex differentiation; Testis development

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; CYTOKINE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FOLLISTATIN; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; GROWTH FACTOR; LEPTIN; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA3; VASCULOTROPIN;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; KNOCKOUT GENE; LEYDIG CELL; MESONEPHROS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SOMATIC CELL; SPECIES COMPARISON; SRY GENE; TESTIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTIS;

MYOIDA;

EID: 34247567862     PISSN: 00747696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0074-7696(06)60003-X     Document Type: Review

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